Sadly, due to the bad weather, we are not able to get to St Andrew’s Tain to hold a service this evening. Please let people know if you think they might attend.
Notices
Greetings from St Finnbarr’s Charities Shop
Merry Christmas to all our customers!
St Finnbarr’s Charities Shop is now closed for the Holidays.
We will remain closed throughout Christmas and New Year.
We will re-open on Thursday 16th January at 10 a.m.
A huge thank you to everyone who has supported our shop this year!
Rogart Mart Carol Service – CANCELLED
We are so sad to have to let you know that due to the very high winds forecast for tomorrow (Saturday 21st), the Carol Service at Rogart Mart has been cancelled. Disappointing for us, but everybody’s safety must come first! Please can you help get the message out?
Christingles Need YOU!!
We need you to come along to St Finnbarr’s, School Hill, Dornoch at 11am this Saturday morning and help us make CHRISTINGLES for our Christingle Service at 3pm on Sunday 22nd December! Making Christingles is great fun and we will have tea and coffee on the go, so please do join us! PS In the pic above, you can just see one of our cats ready to have a go at making a Christingle – the first person to guess his name and tell me in person on Saturday morning wins a special prize!! (Clue – he is all black and has a brother named after someone who might clean your chimney)!
Services at Christmas 2024
- Saturday 21st Dec – Christmas Carols at the Mart with collection in aid of Air Ambulance and Tearfund
with Simon Scott and the Harmony Choir, followed by mince pies and mulled wine- Rogart Mart, Rogart at 6:30pm
- Sunday 22th Dec – Christingle and Carol Service with collection in aid of the Children’s Society
- St Finnbarr’s, Dornoch at 3:00pm
- Monday 23rd Dec – Service of Lessons and Carols with collection for the Samaritans
- St Andrew’s Church, Tain at 3:00pm (followed by seasonal refreshments)
- Tuesday 24th Dec – Christmas ‘Midnight’ Services
- St Finnbarr’s, Dornoch at 7:00pm and
- St Andrews, Tain, at 9:00pm.
- Wednesday 25th Dec – Christmas Day Services
- St Maelrubha’s, Lairg at 8:30am,
- St Finnbarr’s, Dornoch at 10:00am and
- St Andrews, Tain at 10:30am.
- Saturday 28th Dec – Crask Carol Service
- the Crask Inn at 2:30pm (followed by seasonal refreshments)
- Sunday 29th Dec – Christmas Service
- Christmas Service at St Columba’s, Brora at 4:00pm
All are welcome at any of our services.
St Andrew’s Eve at St Andrew’s Church, Tain
On Friday 29th November 2024
St Andrew’s Eve Service and Social
Service 6pm
Social Event 7pm
Haggis Supper, desert, tea/ coffee
(Vegetarian Haggis available)
Traditional entertainment from:
Miekle Ferry Music Group
St Andrew’s Eve Quiz
All Welcome
Advent Study Groups 2024
The Nicene Creed
“There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all.”
Ephesians 4:4-6
This Advent, our study group will explore the Nicene Creed, which we say every Sunday. From the beginnings of the Christian Church there has been much debate over what the individual believes. This study is a whistlestop tour through the three sections of the Nicene Creed, which describe the three persons of the Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
One God in Three Persons? Surely, that means there are three equal Gods? Hopefully, by the end of this study you will understand that this is a question that the Church has battled with since the very beginning.
The Study Group will meet
on
Wednesdays 4th, 11th and 18th December
Afternoons from 1:30-3:00pm
at James and Anna’s house in Golspie
More details from Canon James
All Souls Service – Sunday 3rd November 2024
As part of our Season of Remembrance, all are invited to join us at:
St Finnbarr’s Episcopal Church, Dornoch
on Sunday 3rd November
at 7:00pm
for a special service at which we remember those we have loved and lost.
At this service the names of the departed will be read aloud. We will read the names of your loved ones even if you can’t make it to the service, as this is something that we do for each other and for the wider Church community.
We have lists of names from previous years, all of whom will be remembered, but if there are others that you wish us to add please get in touch.
(The service this year is on 3rd, because we will be celebrating All Saints Sunday in the morning on the 3rd and the All Soul’s Service should come after All Saints:-)
Thanksgiving for the life of Charles Weston Brooke
A service of thanksgiving
for the life of
Charles Weston Brooke
(27th January 1951 – 6th October 2024)
will be held on
Thursday 24th October 2024
at 2:30pm
in Dornoch Cathedral
following a family funeral and cremation earlier in the day
Thanksgiving for Harvest
A huge thank you to those who prepared our churches for our harvest thanksgivings this year and for donating food and produce for the food bank and others in need.
Scottish Episcopal Church - Dornoch, Lairg, Brora, Tain & Tongue 